Did you know about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and simply Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement.
Notable Deaths on January 19
January 19 has 100 recorded notable deaths across history, from 520 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
1990 — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian guru and mystic (born 1931)
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Did you know about Hedy Lamarr
Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II.
Did you know about Miguel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer's breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film RoboCop.
Did you know about Suzanne Pleshette
For her role as Emily Hartley on the CBS sitcom The Bob Newhart Show (1972–1978), she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Did you know about Robert Eugene Brashers
Robert Eugene Brashers was an American serial killer and mass murderer who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998.
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2000
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II.
2017
Miguel Ferrer
American actor (born 1955)
Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film RoboCop. Other film roles include Harbinger in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Quigley in Blank Check, Eduardo Ruiz in Traffic (2000) and Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3 (2013). Ferrer's notable television roles include FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks, Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan (2001–2007) and NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles (2012–2017).
2008
Suzanne Pleshette
American actress (born 1937)
Suzanne Pleshette was an American actress known for her roles in theatre, film, and television. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. For her role as Emily Hartley on the CBS sitcom The Bob Newhart Show (1972–1978), she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
1999
Robert Eugene Brashers
American serial killer and rapist (born 1958)
Robert Eugene Brashers was an American serial killer and mass murderer who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998. During his lifetime, Brashers was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a woman in 1985, as well as for various other offenses stemming from a 1992 case in which he stole a vehicle, but was not identified as a suspect in any of his murders and remained in relative obscurity. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1999 to avoid arrest for an unrelated crime after a standoff with police.
2007
Denny Doherty
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1940)
Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. A tenor, he was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
1597
Maharana Pratap
Hindu Rajput king of Mewar (born1540)
Pratap Singh I, popularly known as Maharana Pratap, was king of the Kingdom of Mewar, in north-western India in the present-day state of Rajasthan, from 1572 until his death in 1597. He is notable for leading the Rajput resistance against the expansionist policy of the Mughal Emperor Akbar including the battle of Haldighati.
1865
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French philosopher and politician (born 1809)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person known to self-identify as an anarchist, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.
1547
Henry Howard
Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1516)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person to have been executed at the insistence of King Henry VIII. As a fellow translator and imitator of classical Latin authors, his name is closely linked in literature with that of the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, about whom he wrote an elegy, the only poem published in his life. Owing largely to the powerful position of his father Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Henry took a prominent part in court life, and served as a soldier both in France and in Scotland. He was a man of reckless temper, which involved him in many quarrels, and finally brought upon him the wrath of the ageing Henry VIII. He was arrested, tried for treason and beheaded on Tower Hill.
1998
Carl Perkins
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)
Carl Lee Perkins was an American country and rockabilly guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954. Among his best known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Honey Don't", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".
1996
Don Simpson
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)
Donald Clarence Simpson was an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor, known for his work on blockbuster films of the 1980s and 1990s. Simpson entered the film industry in the 1970s and worked at Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. He eventually began a professional partnership with Jerry Bruckheimer, and together, they produced hit films such as Flashdance (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Top Gun (1986), and The Rock (1996), the latter released posthumously. As his stature in Hollywood grew, Simpson became notorious for his debauched lifestyle, which included severe and longstanding substance abuse, and he ultimately died from heart failure caused by an overdose of cocaine and prescription drugs. By the time of his death, his and Bruckheimer's films had grossed over $3 billion worldwide.
2006
Anthony Franciosa
American actor (born 1928)
Anthony George Franciosa, also billed as Tony Franciosa, was an American actor. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
1980
William O. Douglas
American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court associate justice (born 1898)
William Orville Douglas was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views and is often cited as the most liberal justice in the U.S. Supreme Court’s history. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, becoming one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. He is the longest-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice in history, having served for 36 years and 209 days.
2013
Stan Musial
American baseball player and manager (born 1920)
Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American professional baseball player. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial spent 22 seasons as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 in his first year of eligibility.
1983
Ham
chimpanzee and animal astronaut, first hominid in space (born 1957)
Ham, a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first ape launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.
2013
Earl Weaver
American baseball player and manager (born 1930)
Earl Sidney Weaver was an American professional baseball manager, author, and television color commentator. Weaver played in minor league baseball as a second baseman from 1948 to 1960. In 1956, he began his managerial career, serving as a player–manager for five seasons before he stopped playing to concentrate on managing, without ever having played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He progressed through the minor league system before going on to become a manager in the Major Leagues with the Baltimore Orioles in two separate stints, winning a World Series championship in 1970.
1930
Frank P. Ramsey
British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)
Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge University. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret intellectual society at the university, from 1921.
2026
Valentino
Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, known mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian fashion designer who founded Valentino S.p.A., a luxury fashion house, in 1960 and served as its creative director until 2007. A flamboyant designer noted for his retro pieces and celebrity collaborations, he is regarded as one of the preeminent figures in haute couture.
2008
John Stewart
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of songs performed by the Monkees, as well as his own No. 5 hit "Gold" during a solo career spanning 40 years that included almost four dozen albums and more than 600 recorded songs.
1975
Thomas Hart Benton
American painter and educator (born 1889)
Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
639
Dagobert I
Frankish king (born 603)
Dagobert I was King of the Franks. He ruled Austrasia (623–634) and Neustria and Burgundy (629–639). He has been described as the last king of the Merovingian dynasty to wield real royal power, after which the mayor of the palace rose as the political and war leader. Dagobert was the first Frankish king to be buried in the royal tombs at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
1526
Isabella of Austria
Danish queen (born 1501)
Isabella of Austria, also known as Elizabeth, was born an Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile from the House of Habsburg, and subsequently became Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, under the Kalmar Union, as the wife of King Christian II. She was the daughter of King Philip I and Queen Joanna of Castile and the sister of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. She ruled Denmark as regent in 1520.
1729
William Congreve
English playwright and poet (born 1670)
William Congreve was an English playwright, satirist and poet. He played a major role in shaping English comedy, and is often regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest playwrights of the Restoration period. The popularity of his plays in the late 17th and early 18th centuries was central to the development of satirical comedy of manners, and he became recognised as a seminal figure of Restoration literature. Although he wrote several commercially successful works, Congreve is best remembered today for his quotes, such as, "O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell", and "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".
2000
Bettino Craxi
Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934)
Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI member to become prime minister and the second from a socialist party to hold the office. He led the fourth-longest government in the Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most influential politicians of Italy.
1982
Elis Regina
Brazilian soprano (born 1945)
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known professionally as Elis Regina, was a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano.
1929
Liang Qichao
Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (born 1873)
Liang Qichao was a Chinese politician, social and political activist, journalist, and intellectual. His thought had a significant influence on the political reformation of modern China. He inspired Chinese scholars and activists with his writings and reform movements. His translations of Western and Japanese books into Chinese further introduced new theories and ideas and inspired young activists. Liang was of Taishanese descent.
1997
James Dickey
American poet and novelist (born 1923)
James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet, novelist, critic, and lecturer. He was appointed the 18th United States Poet Laureate in 1966. His other accolades included the National Book Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
2007
Hrant Dink
Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)
Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian journalist, human rights activist, founder and editor-in-chief of Agos. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey best known for advocating Turkish–Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey. He was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for "insulting Turkishness", while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.
2002
Vavá
Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1934)
Edvaldo Izidio Neto, commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Nicknamed "Peito de Aço", he most notably played for Vasco da Gama, Atlético Madrid, Palmeiras and the Brazil national team.
2013
Taihō Kōki
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)
Taihō Kōki was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the 48th yokozuna in 1961 at the age of 21, the youngest ever at the time.
1906
Bartolomé Mitre
Argentinian historian and politician, sixth President of Argentina (born 1821)
Bartolomé Mitre was an Argentine general, statesman and author. He was President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and the first president of unified Argentina.
2000
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum
a Baháʼí Faith Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (born 1910)
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum was an American-born Canadian Hand of the Cause of the Baháʼí Faith. She was the wife of Shoghi Effendi, who, in accordance with the Will and Testament of his grandfather ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, was appointed to the station of Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith. He became the Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith between 1921 and 1957. Appointed as a Hand of the Cause in 1952, her primary responsibility was to expand and protect the global Baháʼí community. In this capacity, she was among the leading Hands of the Cause who, following Effendi's death in 1957, took on the role of ensuring the transfer of the religion's supreme legal authority to the Universal House of Justice, which has governed out of Haifa, Israel, since 1963.
2015
Michel Guimond
Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1953)
Michel Guimond was a Canadian politician. From 1987 to 1993 he served as a city councillor in Boischatel, Quebec. After this, he ran in the 1993 federal election for the Bloc Québécois. He was elected into the House of Commons of Canada as the member from Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans. He was re-elected in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections and in the 2004 federal election. In the 2004 and 2008 elections, he won in Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord before being defeated in the 2011 federal election. A lawyer, he has served as the Bloc critic of Parliamentary Affairs, Transport and to the Auditor General. He then served as whip and deputy whip of the Bloc Québécois, and was also the vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
2012
Sarah Burke
Canadian skier (born 1982)
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.
1636
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Flemish painter (born1561)
Marcus Gheeraerts was a Flemish artist working at the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and van Dyck". He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a painter. He became a fashionable portraitist in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I under the patronage of her champion and pageant-master Sir Henry Lee. He introduced a new aesthetic in English court painting that captured the essence of a sitter through close observation. He became a favorite portraitist of James I's queen Anne of Denmark, but fell out of fashion in the late 1610s.
2025
Jeff Torborg
American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
Jeffrey Allen Torborg was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels from 1964 to 1973. He managed the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Montreal Expos, and Florida Marlins.
2016
Ettore Scola
Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)
Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
1869
Carl Reichenbach
German chemist and philosopher (born 1788)
Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach, known as Carl Reichenbach, was a German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his discoveries of several chemical products of economic importance, extracted from tar, such as eupione, waxy paraffin, pittacal and phenol. He also dedicated his last years to researching an unproved field of energy combining electricity, magnetism and heat, emanating from all living things, which he called the Odic force.
1984
Max Bentley
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1920)
Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) as part of a professional and senior career that spanned 20 years. He was the NHL's leading scorer twice in a row, and in 1946 won the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player. He played in four All-Star Games and was twice named to a post-season All-Star team.
2012
Rudi van Dantzig
Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)
Rudi van Dantzig was a Dutch choreographer, company director, and writer. He was a pivotal figure in the rise to world renown of Dutch ballet in the latter half of the 20th century. He was co-director and then artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet from 1968 and 1991, and later did choreography for major companies, including Ballet Rambert, The Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet.
2004
David Hookes
Australian cricketer and coach (born 1955)
David William Hookes was an Australian cricket player and coach. He played for the Australia national cricket team and domestic cricket for South Australia, later coaching Victoria. An aggressive left-handed batsman, Hookes usually batted in the middle order. His international career got off to a sensational start in the Centenary Test at Melbourne in 1977 when he hit England captain Tony Greig for five consecutive boundaries, but a combination of circumstances ensured that he never became a regular in the Australian team. He wrote in his autobiography, "I suspect history will judge me harshly as a batsman because of my modest record in 23 Tests and I can't complain about that".
1661
Thomas Venner
English rebel leader
Thomas Venner was an English cooper and rebel who became the last leader of the Fifth Monarchists, who tried unsuccessfully to overthrow Oliver Cromwell in 1657, and subsequently led a coup in London against the newly restored government of Charles II. This event, known as "Venner's Rising", lasted four days beginning on 6 January 1661 before English authorities defeated and captured the rebels, whose leadership were executed on 19 January.
1851
Esteban Echeverría
Argentinian poet and author (born 1805)
José Esteban Antonio Echeverría was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and liberal activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his organizational efforts. He was one of Latin America's most important Romantic authors. Echeverría's romantic liberalism was influenced by both the democratic nationalism of Giuseppe Mazzini and the utopian socialist doctrines of Henri de Saint-Simon.
1862
Felix Zollicoffer
American newspaperman, politician, and Confederate general (born 1812)
Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was an American newspaperman, slave owner, politician, and soldier. He was three-term U.S. representative from Tennessee, an officer in the United States Army, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War; he led the first Confederate invasion of eastern Kentucky and was killed in action at the Battle of Mill Springs. Zollicoffer was the first Confederate general to die in the Western Theater.
2004
Harry E. Claiborne
American lawyer and judge (born 1917)
Harry Eugene Claiborne was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada from 1978 until his impeachment and removal in 1986. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, Claiborne was only the fifth person in United States history to be removed from office through impeachment by the United States Congress and the first since Halsted Ritter in 1936.
1945
Gustave Mesny
French general (born 1886)
Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny was a French Army general in command of the 5th North African Infantry Division who was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers during the Battle of France in June 1940, during the Second World War. He was victim of a war crime, controversially killed by Nazi Germany in retribution for the death of German General Fritz von Brodowski while in French custody.
1895
António Luís de Seabra
1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (born 1798)
D. António Luís de Seabra e Sousa, 1st Viscount of Seabra was a Portuguese politician, jurist, and magistrate. A notable figure of the Constitutional Monarchy period, he was a government minister, a rector of the University of Coimbra, a judge in the Oporto appellate court, a member of Parliament, a Peer of the Realm, and a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice.
1874
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German poet and scholar (born 1798)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben was a German poet associated with the Young Germany movement. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.
2016
Richard Levins
American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)
Richard Levins was a Marxist biologist, population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, zoologist and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, he was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist. He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations.
1833
Ferdinand Hérold
French pianist and composer (born 1791)
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, better known as Ferdinand Hérold, was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet music, works for piano and choral pieces. He is best known today for the ballet La Fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa.
1847
Athanasios Christopoulos
Greek poet (born 1772)
Athanasios Christopoulos was a Greek poet, playwright, a distinguished scholar and jurist. He has been proclaimed a champion of the modern Greek demotic and the forerunner of the national poet Dionysios Solomos. More importantly he is the first modern Greek poet to have his works - the Lyrika - published and read across a broad section of the European continent.
1990
Herbert Wehner
German politician, sixth Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1906)
Richard Herbert Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations from 1966 to 1969 and thereafter as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag until 1983.
1878
Henri Victor Regnault
French physicist and chemist (born 1810)
Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his lifetime as Victor Regnault.
1847
Charles Bent
American soldier and politician, first Governor of New Mexico (born 1799)
Charles Bent was an American businessman and politician who served as the first civilian United States governor of the United States provisional government of New Mexico, newly invaded and occupied by the United States during the Mexican-American War by the Military Governor, Stephen Watts Kearny, in September 1846 until his death.
1915
Ernest de Munck
Belgian cellist and composer (born 1840)
Ernest de Munck was a Belgian cellist and composer. Born in Brussels, de Munck learned the cello from his professional cellist father François de Munck as well as Adrien-François Servais. He later became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music in London.
1965
Arnold Luhaäär
Estonian weightlifter (born 1905)
Arnold Luhaäär was an Estonian heavyweight weightlifter. He competed in the 1928 and 1936 Olympic Games and won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively. He missed the 1932 games because Estonia could not afford sending a full team to Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
1948
Tony Garnier
French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (born 1869)
Tony Garnier was a noted French architect and city planner. He was most active in his home city of Lyon, where he notably designed the Halle Tony Garnier and Stade de Gerland. Garnier is considered one of the forerunners of 20th-century French architects.
1954
Theodor Kaluza
German mathematician and physicist (born 1885)
Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza–Klein theory, involving field equations in five-dimensional space-time. His idea that fundamental forces can be unified by introducing additional dimensions was reused much later for string theory.
1976
Hidetsugu Yagi
Japanese engineer and academic (born 1886)
Hidetsugu Yagi was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.
1990
Alberto Semprini
English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1908)
Alberto Fernando Riccardo Semprini, known as Alberto Semprini, or by his stage name Semprini, was an English pianist, composer and conductor, known for his appearances on the BBC, mainly on radio.
1565
Diego Laynez
Spanish Jesuit theologian (born 1512)
Diego Laynez, was a Spanish Jesuit Catholic priest and theologian, a New Christian, and the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus after the founder Ignatius of Loyola.
1755
Jean-Pierre Christin
French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1683)
Jean-Pierre Christin was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale was widely accepted and is still in use today.
1938
Branislav Nušić
Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (born 1864)
Branislav Nušić was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist. Nušić was the founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant.
2013
Frank Pooler
American conductor and composer (born 1926)
Frank Mairich Pooler was an American choirmaster and the director of choral studies at California State University, Long Beach. He also collaborated with pop music group The Carpenters.
914
García I
king of León
García I was the King of León from 910 until his death and eldest of three succeeding sons of Alfonso III of Asturias by his wife Jimena.
1968
Ray Harroun
American race car driver and engineer (born 1879)
Ray Wade Harroun was an American racing driver and pioneering race car constructor. He is most famous for winning the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911.
520
John of Cappadocia
patriarch of Constantinople
John of Cappadocia, surnamed Cappadox or the Cappadocian, was patriarch of Constantinople in 518–520, during the reign of Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus after an enforced condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon. His short patriarchate is memorable for the celebrated Acclamations of Constantinople, and the reunion of East and West after a schism of 34 years. At the death of Timothy I of Constantinople, John of Cappadocia, whom he had designated his successor, was presbyter and chancellor of the Church of Constantinople.
1995
Gene MacLellan
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Gene MacLellan was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Prince Edward Island. Among his compositions were "Snowbird", made famous by Anne Murray, "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call", "Pages of Time", and "Thorn in My Shoe". Elvis Presley, Lynn Anderson, Loretta Lynn, Joan Baez, and Bing Crosby were among the many artists who recorded MacLellan's songs.
2010
Bill McLaren
Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (born 1923)
William Pollock McLaren was a Scottish rugby union commentator and journalist, having been a teacher and rugby player. Known as "the voice of rugby", he retired from commentating in 2002. Renowned throughout the sport, McLaren's enthusiasm and memorable turn of phrase endeared him to many.
2005
K. Sello Duiker
South African author and screenwriter (born 1974)
Kabelo Sello Duiker was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. His second novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter.
1979
Moritz Jahn
German novelist and poet (born 1884)
Moritz Jahn was a Lower German novelist and an educator. He was also a poet best known for writing ballads, lyrical poetry, and narratives. He was also a member of the Nazi Party. He has written notable literary works in Low German such as Frangula and Luzifer.
1302
Al-Hakim I
caliph of Cairo
Al-Hakim I was the second Abbasid caliph of Cairo and who was subservient to the Mamluk Sultanate. He reigned between 1262 and 1302. Al-Hakim was the first and real founder of the Caliphate of Cairo and the Egyptian Abbasid dynasty.
1991
Marcel Chaput
Canadian biochemist and journalist (born 1918)
Marcel Chaput was a scientist and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN).
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1571
Paris Bordone
Venetian painter (born 1495)
Paris Bordone was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.
1576
Hans Sachs
German poet and playwright (born 1494)
Hans Sachs was a German Meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker.
1757
Thomas Ruddiman
Scottish scholar and academic (born 1674)
Thomas Ruddiman was a Scottish classical scholar.
1766
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
Italian-French architect and painter (born 1695)
Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, was an Italian decorator, architect, painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist.
1785
Jonathan Toup
English scholar and critic (born 1713)
Jonathan Oannes Toup was an English philologist, classical scholar and critic.
1853
Karl Faber
German historian and academic (born 1773)
Karl Peter Andreas Faber was a Prussian archivist and historian.
1957
József Dudás
Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (born 1912)
József Dudás, was a Hungarian politician and resistance fighter.
1963
Clement Smoot
American golfer (born 1884)
Clement Eyer Smoot was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
1964
Firmin Lambot
Belgian cyclist (born 1886)
Firmin Lambot was a Belgian bicycle racer who twice won the Tour de France.
1972
Michael Rabin
American violinist (born 1936)
Michael Rabin was an American violinist. He has been described as "one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation".
1973
Max Adrian
Irish-English actor (born 1903)
Max Adrian was an Irish actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
1981
Francesca Woodman
American photographer (born 1958)
Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white pictures featuring either herself or female models.
1999
Ivan Francescato
Italian rugby player (born 1967)
Ivan Francescato was an Italian rugby union player.
2003
Françoise Giroud
French journalist, screenwriter, and politician, French Minister of Culture (born 1916)
Françoise Giroud was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.
2003
Milton Flores
Honduran footballer (born 1974)
Milton Javier Flores Miranda was a Honduran football player.
2006
Wilson Pickett
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Wilson Pickett Jr. was an American singer and songwriter.
2007
Murat Nasyrov
Russian singer-songwriter (born 1969)
Murat Ismailovich Nasyrov was a Soviet, Kazakhstani, and Russian singer and songwriter of Uyghur ethnicity.
2008
Don Wittman
Canadian sportscaster (born 1936)
Donald Rae Wittman was a Canadian sportscaster.
2012
Peter Åslin
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1962)
Peter Karl Åslin was a Swedish national team ice hockey goaltender.
2012
Winston Riley
Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)
Winston Riley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and record producer. The Jamaica Gleaner notes he was one of the most successful reggae producers.
2013
Toktamış Ateş
Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)
Toktamış Ateş was a Turkish academic, political commentator, columnist and writer. He was professor of political sciences at Istanbul University.
2014
Azaria Alon
Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (born 1918)
Azaria Alon was an Israel Prize-winning environmentalist, and a co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
2014
Christopher Chataway
English runner, journalist, and politician (born 1931)
Sir Christopher John Chataway was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster and Conservative politician.
2015
Justin Capră
Romanian engineer and academic (born 1933)
Virgilius Justin Capră was a Romanian engineer and inventor.
2015
Ward Swingle
American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1927)
Ward Lamar Swingle was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers in France in 1962.
2016
Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough)
English actress (born 1922)
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim, Baroness Attenborough was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of Richard Attenborough.